Karl Rove's Secret To Success: Eggies
In Scribe's Death, Rare Political Unity
It's not often that retired 83-year-old Sen. John Glenn sings, or Bushie Adam Levine holds hands with Clintonista Ann Lewis to sing Auld Lang Syne, or that you get Joe Wilson and Bob Novak in the same room. But it happened this month at a National Press Club memorial service for Tom Brazaitis , longtime Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter and husband of Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift . A Gridiron Club big shot, Brazaitis had connections, and many of his sources showed up, making for a politically interesting crowd. Just consider: He and Clift are famous liberals, but that didn't stop Pat Buchanan or Cal Thomas from attending. Then there was Wilson, husband of the spy Novak outed. Our tipster heard Wilson say, "I need a drink. I just saw Bob Novak." Clift told us her hubby would have loved the spectacle. "Tom was quite a bit of a ham himself."
A White House and A 'Redneck Woman'
She's hunted ducks, rounded up rattlesnakes, and jet-skied down the Arkansas River--all of it. So if hubby Mike Huckabee , Arkansas's guv, gets the GOP 2008 presidential nomination, Janet Huckabee won't be playing the aw-shucks role others have in the past. In fact, look for her to reach out to the group dubbed "redneck women" by singer Gretchen Wilson , pals tell us. "She may not be your dainty first lady," says a friend, "but she's real." Hmmm. Seems we heard that about a previous Arkansas first lady.
Are Turks Taking Their Talk to TV?
Sirius Satellite Radio's homegrown liberal commentators, the Young Turks, may have a future in TV, thanks to an E-mail campaign targeting MSNBC and pushed by St. Louis blogger Wendy Dickson , who runs commonsensemom.com. Enough E-mails have arrived on President Rick Kaplan 's computer that "we're going to take a look at their pitch," said a spokesman. Why TV? Turk Ben Mankiewicz said there are too many righties there. "The time has come for regime change in American television."
Pieces of the Presidency
Get out your credit cards, presidential trivia collectors. Because the June 4-5 online auction from Alexander Autographs Inc. has a big collection to pitch. How about a rare "Dewey Defeats Truman" newspaper? Or a 2000 Bush campaign poster signed by W himself. Better yet, a storybook of George Washington 's death with a GW autograph and fabric from the covering of his coffin.
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